YA Corner with Alex Bennett: Anything Can Work
Prepare for rambling!
I was really at a loss of what I could write about for this blog, so I went to Twitter for help. Courtney Allison Moulton replied with “ponies.” And it got me thinking. She probably said it as a joke, but really she isn’t far off. I asked for bookish ideas for posts, and she unwillingly got the gears going in my mind.
You can turn any idea into a book. Any idea has the ability to work, if enough work is put into it. Just think about it: before you read Harry Potter, the idea of a small boy finding out he was a wizard and going to a school called Hogwarts sounded strange, right? But when we actually get to experience the story, all of the previous judgments are abolished.
My point is: anything can work. A lot of the ideas for things I myself have written would probably sound weird. And who knows, maybe they are weird. But you can never really tell by first impressions.
Writers just may be a little crazy, since they have the ability to turn weird, strange, and outlandish ideas into sometimes amazing stories that are nothing like what they seem to be.
Never judge a book by its cover… or by what you think it is about. I’m almost always proved wrong.
You are so right! You can turn any idea into a book. Sometimes I think of something random and then challenge myself to do just that. And those stories usually come out better than the normal preplanned ones.
Great post!
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